Significance of motor vehicle crashes and pelvic injury on fetal mortality: A five-year institutional review

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 616-620

  Aboutanos, Michel B ^a   Aboutanos, Sharline Z ^a   Dompkowski, Douglas ^a   Duane, Therese M ^a   Malhotra, Ajai K ^a   Ivatury, Rao R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal outcome; Motor vehicle collisions; Pelvic injury; Pregnancy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; DRIVER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS OUTCOME; FISHER EXACT TEST; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS INJURY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; INJURY; PELVIC GIRDLE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL MORTALITY; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; PELVIC BONES; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67650295961     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181825603     Document Type: Article

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